CourseContent

Project Outline of Concepts Covered:

1. Electricity

• Sources and Loads
• Circuits
• Voltage, Current, Resistance
  • Voltage dividers

2. Electronics

• Analog vs Digital
• Power: Power Supplies / Voltage Regulators
• Digital Fundamentals
  • Binary data / counting
  • Data Representation: Bits&Bytes
  • Data types
• Signals
  • Analog Signals: Audio, Video, RF
  • Digital signals: Bits, Serial bit streams

3. Sensors

• Analog output
• Digital Output
• Position
• Rotation
• Temperature
• Pressure
• Humidity

4. MicroControllers

• Fundamentals
• Code vs Data
• I/O: Digital, Analog
  • INputs, OUTputs, Bi-Directional
• On-Chip Peripherals
  • Counters and Timers
  • Analog-to-Digital Converters
• External Peripherals
  • Interface Options
    • SPI
    • I2C
    • 1-wire
• Programming options

5. Programming

• Coding levels: Machine-Asm-Compiler-Interpreter
• "Programming" the chip
• Programming Concepts / Programming "Style"
  • Constants
  • Variables
  • Procedures
  • Libraries
  • Coding Conventions
  • Debugging

6. Communications

• Signalling / Physical
  • RS-232 / Ethernet / USB
• Protocols